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Self-Portrait (2006) by Haisla Collins

October 30, 2011

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Self-Portrait (2006) by Haisla Collins. http://www.haislacollins.ca/

Climate Change Killed 90% of Ocean Species: Study

October 13, 2011

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Here’s a little warning from our finny friends in the Great Dying a.k.a. the Permian–Triassic extinction event. There it is in the headline in Cosmos, “Ocean oxygen loss caused Earth’s largest extinction.” Maybe you pass it by because events occurring at the Permian-Triassic boundary, 251 million years ago, while interesting, are not as compelling as, […]

The Settled & the Nomadic

October 9, 2011

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“…a crucial difference between hunter-gatherers and farmers is that one society is highly mobile, with a strong tendency to both small- and large-scale nomadism, whereas the other is highly settled, tending to stay firmly in one particular area or territory.  This difference is established in stereotypes of “nomadic” hunters and “settled” farmers.  However, the stereotype […]